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From: mash@mips.COM (John Mashey)
Newsgroups: comp.arch
Subject: Re: the other Unisys machines (was Burroughs stack machines)
Keywords: RISC, real-time
Message-ID: <2336@winchester.mips.COM>
Date: 10 Jun 88 04:59:28 GMT
References: <1521@pt.cs.cmu.edu> <1532@pt.cs.cmu.edu> <476@pcrat.UUCP> <2868@louie.udel.EDU> <370@dlscg1.UUCP> <3147@polyslo.UUCP> <10089@ames.arc.nasa.gov>
Reply-To: mash@winchester.UUCP (John Mashey)
Organization: MIPS Computer Systems, Sunnyvale, CA
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In article <10089@ames.arc.nasa.gov> eugene@pioneer.UUCP (Eugene N. Miya) writes:
>I've never worked on MCP, but a friend headed their Large Systems
>Language group in Pasadena.  The language isn't quite ALGOL, it's SPL.

ALGOL = what applications were written in, along with COBOL.
DC ALGOL = Data Communications Extended ALGOL = extended version used to
build message control systems for datacomm.
ESPOL = what the MCP was written in; I think it stood for
Executive System procedure Oriented Language.

I never worked on it either, although I've looked at MCP listings in ESPOL.
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